 A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never...  Development of English Literature and Language - Page 486by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 616 pages
...rounil As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from thuse flame* No light, but rather darkness visible ServM only to discover sights of woe ; Regions of sorrow,...And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That nomes to all : Out torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning- sulphur... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 682 pages
...For instance of this, take the description of hell in Miltoii's admirable poem, called Paradise lost. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace ' And rest can never dwell : Hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges ; aud a fiery deluge fed With ever-burning sulphur... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...A§ one great furnace flam'it ; yet from those Manic s No light, but rather darkness visible t Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of .sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 65 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1815 - 236 pages
...Milton's Paradise Lost, we find the following tremendous description : He (Satan) views The dismal situation waste and wild : A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd : yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Heaven. At least, my soul, let... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pages
...from those flames No light, but father darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of wo, Kegions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...dismay, Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate: At once as far as angels ken he views The dismal situation Waste and wild: A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
 | 1821 - 438 pages
..." Realms of everlasting bliss ?" and who has succeeded in painting, in such vivii colours, those " Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; Hope never comes ;" to the reign of " Chaos and uld Night ;" to Ibis iu fanl world ; and, in short, through the boundles... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pages
...dismay, Mix "d with obdurate pride and steadfast hate ; At once as far as angels ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd; yet from those flame'; No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...round, As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd ep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in Heaven,...all the riclws of this world enjoy'dst, And all the comes to all : but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...round A< one great furnace flani'd ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 45 And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges,... | |
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